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Geographical location of Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo belongs to a corner of Kanto, located at the southern end of Kanto Plain, facing Tokyo Bay, and roughly located in the center of the Japanese archipelago. It is connected with Chiba Prefecture in the east by Edogawa, Yamanashi Prefecture in the west by mountains, Kanagawa Prefecture in the south by Yuchuan, and saitama in the north. The total area is 2 155 square kilometers. The coordinates of the city center are 35 69' north latitude and139 69' east longitude.

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The central city of Tokyo metropolitan area, one of Japan's three metropolitan areas. "Tokyo" in a narrow sense refers to Tokyo, old Tokyo or Tokyo metropolitan area (old Tokyo city), and can also refer to Tokyo metropolitan area in general. /kloc-0 changed its name to Tokyo in September, 868.

Tokyo consists of 23 special administrative regions, 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages. The administrative area includes 23 special administrative regions and the narrow land part of Tama (26 cities, 3 towns 1 village), as well as Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands (2 towns and 7 villages) distributed in the southern waters of Tokyo Bay.

Among them, the Tokyo metropolitan area is the seat of the Japanese central government. Tokyo consists of Tokyo, Tama Prefecture, Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands.

Tokyo has a subtropical monsoon climate, with an annual average temperature of 15.6℃ in the central part. Four distinct seasons and abundant precipitation. Affected by the southeast monsoon, there is more precipitation in summer. In winter, there is less snowfall.

Edogawa originated in Wuxia Town, Ibaraki Prefecture and Guansu, the base point of Noda City, Chiba Prefecture, and flows southward through Ibaraki Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, saitama and Tokyo. It is divided into "Edogawa Water Release Road" and Old Edogawa, the original flow road near Kawaguchi City, Chiba Prefecture.

The University of Tokyo is the first national university in Japan and one of the earliest universities in Asia. Its predecessor was Tokyo Kaicheng School and Tokyo Medical College founded in Meiji period.

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